What is a case study and what is one advantage of a case study?
What will be an ideal response?
Answer: A case study is an intensive examination of an individual or group. Two advantages of case studies are that they can be a rich source of hypotheses and they facilitate the study of rare behaviors.
You might also like to view...
According to the discussion in the chapter on long-term memory, ecological validity
a. is typically greater in the research on encoding than in the research on autobiographical memory. b. is relatively strong when the research examines the correspondence between a real-life event and the memory of the event. c. is more likely in the research on implicit memory than in the research on explicit memory. d. is a concept that was strongly emphasized in the early history of cognitive psychology, but it is now considered relatively unimportant.
Freyd proposed that the concept of betrayal trauma can explain why people may forget about their own experience with sexual abuse during childhood. Which of the following statements would be most consistent with this perspective?
a. "When a child is sexually abused by a trusted adult, the child may not be able to recall the abuse at a later time." b. "Memory for child sexual abuse is just as accurate as memory for other childhood events." c. "Memory is largely constructed, so an adult can construct a childhood event that did not really occur, as long as it is consistent with that adult's current knowledge and ideas." d. "Certain events are so traumatic to a child that he or she will recall them especially vividlyâ€"somewhat like a flashbulb memory."
Which experimental result caused problems for Broadbent's filter model of selective attention?
a. A result where listeners don't notice words presented up to 35 times in the unattended ear b. A result where listeners can shadow a message presented in the attended ear c. The result of Cherry's experiment demonstrating the cocktail party phenomenon d. The result of the "Dear Aunt Jane" experiment
According to Durkheim, "fatalistic" suicide stems from
a. allowing freedom of expression b. enforcing excessive regulations c. maintaining secrecy d. maintaining an open door policy e. none of these